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Luke's dad has bought a lot of gadgets recently and not one of them works as it's supposed to. Luke knows what he must do - he just needs his fellow SCARF members to help or it will be the end of everything... Cover artwork by Robin Boyden

Christopher Edge is an award-winning children's author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Christopher grew up in Manchester where he spent most of his childhood in the local library, dreaming up stories. After studying English at university, he worked in a record shop and as an English teacher before discovering a publishing job that allowed him to read lots of brilliant children's books. His novel The Many World...

Karl Newson (Author) Karl Newson is a children's book author and illustrator from London. He takes inspiration from songs and books and people and everything! His favourite things are elephants, stars and his two mini Mudwafflers. His least favourite thing is mashed potato - bleurgh! In his spare time he enjoys walking and listening to music from the 1960s (and singing along - badly - to them), and biscuits.Kate Hindley (Illustrator) Kate is a...

When Jane was 6 years old she won a prize for a drawing of a circus ring but the teacher held it upside down when showing it to the whole school at assembly, and Jane was furious. It was obvious those lions were upside down!!!She went on to complete a degree in Surface Pattern design which lead to commissions for ceramics, textiles, greetings cards and illustration. Jane's real love is for screenprinting (a process in which each colour is prin...

When Jane was 6 years old she won a prize for a drawing of a circus ring but the teacher held it upside down when showing it to the whole school at assembly, and Jane was furious. It was obvious those lions were upside down!!!She went on to complete a degree in Surface Pattern design which lead to commissions for ceramics, textiles, greetings cards and illustration. Jane's real love is for screenprinting (a process in which each colour is prin...

Fatti Burke is an Amsterdam-based illustrator from Co. Waterford, Ireland. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2012 and has been working freelance ever since. She enjoys working on illustrations related to things that she loves, including food, home and animals. Her first three children's non-fiction titles - Irelandopedia (2015), Historopedia (2016) and Focloiropedia (2017) - became bestsellers in Ireland.

Charlotte Lo wrote her first story when she was six years old, on a square of bumpy kitchen towel. Some years later, she enrolled on a masters degree in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, and graduated with distinction. When not writing, Charlotte can often be found wandering the countryside with her camera. She loves to travel and explore new places, from the penguin covered beaches of New Zealand, to the monkey filled mountains...

Summer is sweet for cousins Lucille, Chloe, Aiden and Sol - staying with Grandma and Grandad means they can cycle and sail all around the coast without any grownups in the way.

As a child, Julie Sykes was always telling tales. Not the "she ate all the cake" sort, but wild and exaggerated tales of everyday events. Julie still loves stories and has written over 70 books published worldwide. Julie lives in Hampshire in an old cottage with her family and a white wolf cunningly disguised as a dog. When she's not writing she likes eating cake, reading and walking, often at the same time.Since graduating from Loughborough U...

Chae Strathie (Author) Chae Strathie is an award-winning children's author and journalist who grew up in a tiny village surrounded by a forest in Scotland, which probably explains a lot. His first attempt at professional writing was creating a Star Wars comic at the age of seven. He sold two copies and made a total of four pence. A regular at major book festivals, Chae has toured the length and breadth of the UK and visited schools as far afie...

For as long as she can remember, Kate McLelland has loved drawing and painting. Outdoor holidays with her family inspired hours of doodling animals and nature. She is the illustrator for Press Out and Colour: Christmas and Easter, and has a number of books being published, including Blackbird, Blackbird, What Do You Do? (Hodder Children's Books) and What's Below? (Egmont). Kate lives in Edinburgh with her husband and two children.

Nikki grew up in the countryside in a small village called Shrivenham in Oxfordshire. Nikki studied for her illustration degree in Swindon and since graduating in 2006 has illustrated books for children including 1, 000 Animals, 1, 000 Things to Eat, How to be a Superhero and How to be a Pirate. Nikki spent a lot of her childhood drawing, reading and making mud pies in the garden. To this day she still does the same but gets paid for it too, w...

Sebastien Braun was born in Strasbourg, the hometown of Gustav Dore and Tomi Ungerer (his heroes). As a child he spent countless hours drawing, but at secondary school there were no art classes, so he filled his homework with doodles and portraits of his teachers. At university he initially studied history - fortunately, the building was shared with the art department, and when he saw the students sketching, knew he had to change. After that, ...

When a dragon comes to stay, does she go "ROAR!"and shout, "My way!"?Why, no! Dragons don't do that!But sometimesgood manners canbe a tiny bit tricky . . .

A tactile and beautifully designed interactive picture book for the very young, with splashes of spot UV throughout.

2 new lift-the-flap books for little nature lovers everywhere, published in association with the National Trust. Follows the success of "Who's Hiding On The River?" and "Who's Hiding On The Farm?". Ages: 1+

Mike Langman (Illustrator) A lifelong bird watcher, Mike's ambition to become a bird illustrator was established after winning a national RSPB competition at the age of 15. To date his illustrations have appeared in 53 books and his work can be found on virtually every RSPB reserve in the UK. He rarely goes anywhere without his trusty notebook and a pair of binoculars - 'you just never know what you might bump into - and want to watch or sketc...

Once upon a time, Pippa Goodhart worked in a bookshop full of children's books. The shop also had a dungeon (true!). When Pippa became manager of the shop, she got to look after the big dungeon key as well as the books and people. Pippa began to write books when she was at home with her own children. She's written over a hundred books now, and she's busy writing more. Her most famous picture book is called You Choose, illustrated by Nick Sherr...

Katharine McEwen has been illustrating children's books for over 20 years, working with some wonderful authors including Allan Ahlberg and Michael Rosen. After years of longing to illustrate a book about bears, she eventually bit the bullet and penned her own, Bear Hug, which was published in 2014. She lives in Kent and often seeks inspiration from the surrounding countryside.Katharine is clueless about computers, so creates her artwork with g...

Grace Easton was born in London in 1994. She studied illustration at Central Saint Martins, Brighton University and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Before becoming an author and illustrator she was a baker, a Christmas elf, and a designer for Penguin Books. She loves gardening and spending time on her Auntie Mimi's allotment, affectionately known as 'Balmoral' because it is the most beautiful allotment in all of Dover (it even has a loo...